Premiere Elements 4.0 Outdoor Wedding Template

[tmdavies]

I am currently working on a project using the Outdoor Wedding DVD template in Premiere Elements 4.0. This includes a Main Menu and Scene Selection motion menu.

When I preview the Scene Selection menus in Premiere Elements itself, the actual cursor which selects scenes appears on every scene I choose.

Then, when I actually burn the project onto DVD - the selector doesn't appear in the Scene Selection menu, and therefore I have no way of actually seeing which scene I want to select.

Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

[ATR]

I am understanding your question to be that:
In the DVD Preview (before the burn), scene selections thumbnails are there and the scene menu buttons/selection/highlighting work, but when you playback the DVD-VIDEO on the TV/DVD Player you do not have any functioning buttons in the scene menu. Do you have the scene thumbnails?
Please confirm that my understanding of this issue is correct.

I will be back in a few hours or sooner. I am going to do a test run with this DVD menu in Premiere Elements 4 to see if I can replicate your issue and if I can figure out what is going on.

Depending on my results, I may be back with more questions...hopefully it will be with answers rather than more questions.

ATR

[ATR]

I just got finished road testing that Outdoor Wedding DVD Main Menu/Scene Selection Menu.

In the DVD Preview (before burn), no problems.

Playback of the DVD-VIDEO with TV/DVD Player:

1. With the DVD Main Menu, I had no problems navigating between Play and Scene Selection (to toggle between the two, I used the navigational up or down arrows of the Remote, leave-like icons moved on menu)

2. The Scene Selection Menu took a little figuring out, but worked.

a. Once in the Scene Selection Menu, you have only 4 thumbnails per page. To get back to the Main Menu from the Scene Menu, you have to use the Remote's navigational arrows to get first to the thumbnail bottom left, followed by Main Menu return, followed by Enter. But the Main Menu return in the Scene Selection Menu is easy to see when selected (a dark, little bit larger arrow appears above word Main Menu).

b. Now for the thumbnails themselves...when a thumbnail is highlighted/selected, this highlight is represented by "picture corners" in the upper left and lower right of the thumbnail. To move from thumbnail to thumbnail you move the "picture corners" using the up, right, down, left navigational arrows of the Remote. You should be able to see these corners. I have an old B&W 19in TV and was able to make the selections.

Check out my details and see if we can find a clue in there.

If it is not a misunderstanding on using the navigational arrows of the Remote, then we can dig deeper into this. Are you having problems with any other of those DVD Menus with respect to playback and navigation of the menus with the Remote?

ATR

BTW, that music in the background of that DVD Outdoor Wedding Template sounded like funeral music!!!

[tmdavies]

Hi!

Thanks for all this help!

You have correctly understood my problem.

It must be something wrong with my program as I am unable to see the highlights over the thumbnails correctly. The arrows also don't appear black - they appear as white.

Could it be something to do with the fact that I am using my own background image on the Scene Selection menus? I will try to take that one out and see what happens.

[ATR]

Maybe do a mini test run....a few video clips and using the Outdoor Wedding Template as is, followed by burn to DVD-VIDEO format on DVD disc. See what that looks like on your TV playback.

You might want to do another mini test run using another one of the DVD Templates for comparison. But, leave everything as is until you work out the problems.

I will be watching for your progress. I need to do a little homework to determine if we can invoke a possible video card involvement...doubt it.

ATR